Week Seven: March 15-21 (Rubistar)

We are preparing for the video project we have for the next week. We use FlipCams for the assignment which are pretty portable camcorders that may seem generic but actually takes really good quality videos. Bonny and Loremel were my partners. It was so funny to make the movie with them because we came up with really silly ideas.

We also created a rubric using Rubistar. Rubistar is not a bad website. It's just that Rubistar does not let us store our rubrics in archives or some sort of storage file, which could work to our disadvantage because editting our work means we have to do the whole rubric again. The site was very helpful. My experience with Rubistar made it easier to create a rubic. So we just stayed in class to finish that up. I would rate this as a 5. Overall, it was a good way to make grading better. It was very user-friendly. I would not mind using this in my future classroom.

Week Eight: March 8-14 (QuizYourFriends)

The assignment we did today in class was first to..

1. Get in a group of 3.  
2. Your group will be responsible to come up with a creative commercial advertising a new invention of educational technology.  You may come up with your own props, script etc...  
3. For the first 20 minutes, brainstorm your ideas 
4. You will also come up with your own rubric of how you wish the assignment to be graded, provided that you have at least 5 criteria on a 1-4 scale rubric using Rubistar.com
5. Video should be 2-3 minutes long only.

We also did a quiz from the site of QuizYourFriends.com, where we had to create quizzes for our classmates to take. I choose mine on the facts about Cats. It was really interesting to know all these different facts on cats, and there are some that I really did not know.

If I was to rate this site, I would rate it as a 6. It was a fun site and assignment to do. I would not do anything differently. It was very user-friendly. My experience with the site was very good, I would not mind using this in my future classroom.

Week Six: March 1-7 (Pixton)

Today we will finish up with any additional web-quests that need presenting and then we will answer questions for the blog as well as posting pictures and screen-shots on your blog site.
We also took a look at a fun comic-creation website and gave some experience with story-boarding and heard ideas of how the site can be used in connection with a lesson.  


First we had to..1) Log onto www.pixton.com and sign up for "fun" account (not school).
2) Create a 3-6 frame comic that would promote technological literacy to students.
3) Use as many characters and editing tools as possible.
4) Share with the rest of the class and explain also how you might use this site as a learning tool for your future classroom.  How will you connect it to a lesson? Explain your ideas!

We were given the option to work by ourselves or with 1 (ONE only) partner.

On a scale of 1-10, I would rate the assignment as an 8. I would do the assignment again. I would not do the assignment differently. Just wished we had more time to work on it because I know the comic would be a lot more animated. My experience with using the software was good, it was very user friendly and the challenges at first was it was complicated to get the cartoon to what we want them to look like. Overall, I would use this site in my future classroom.

Week Five: February 16-22 (Webquest)

Today in class, we worked on our webquest sites. I partnered up with Loremel and we came up with the cutest idea have our topic be about "The Teenage Life of an American Butterfly". Our original idea was the life cycle of a butterfly. We logged on to Zunal.com. We worked on the site and tried to complete it. On a scale of 1-10, I would rate the site as being an 8. I actually enjoyed working on this site. It was really interesting to include videos and what not. If I had to do things differently, I would not. I like how the site was. It was really easy to use. My experience with the software turned out great. I can picture myself using this site in my future classroom. It was very user-friendly. I would use this site again. There really wasn't any challenges upon completing this assignment. I would use this site in my classroom is create lesson plans for the students with different topics to choose from. Once the students have understood the concept of the lesson, I would not mind having the students create their own lesson plans just like how we did in class. Overall, this was a great assignment to use!